‘File 15/28 Circulars and orders from A.G.C.R. New Delhi and correspondence with’ [‎39v] (82/222)

Content

The file contains Government of India circular letters, mainly from the Government of India, Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, New Delhi. The circulars provide instructions and guidance to Accounts Officers and Treasury Officers in all government departments and offices, about standard government accounting and audit procedures, including:

• Regular ‘Authority for Payment’ notifications, providing the names and specimen signatures of Accounts Officers employed in the Office of the Accountant-General, entitled to authorise payments, 1933-1948;
• Recording and classification both of the pay of Government employees, 1933 and of credits for deductions from pay of various Indian Family Provident Fund subscriptions, 1945;
• Scrutiny of claims and payment orders for house rent and other allowances for employees, 1934;
• Arrangements about the pay and leave allowances for both military officers in Government of India civil employment, 1941 and civil officers in Government of India service, 1942 who are called to military duty during the Second World War (1939-1945).

There is also correspondence between the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, New Delhi and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire about the lack of prompt submission of monthly cash accounts by the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and other British Consular offices in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , together with a report from the Assistant Political Officer, Bahrain explaining the reasons for delay in 1934-1935.

Extent and format

1 file (110 folios)

Arrangement

File papers are arranged chronologically. They are followed by file notes (folios 104-110), which include a chronological list of documents in the file. The list records their full document reference number and also, for more recent documents, a simple running number from 1 to 26 (folios 68-103). The list also records their folio number. These numbers help to identify and locate the documents in the file.

Physical characteristics

There is an incomplete foliation sequence and a complete sequence. The complete foliation sequence is circled in pencil in the top right corner. It begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, and runs through to 112, ending on the inside of the back cover. Folios 69, 71 and 73 have also been numbered 70, 72 and 74 respectively, on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. . Two consecutive folios which were both originally numbered 56 have been renumbered 56A and 56B to differentiate between them. There is no folio 111.

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English in Latin script

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